Workman&#39;s identification-badge.



F. H. AULD.

WORKMAN'S IDENTIFICATION BADGE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 15. I918.

1,298,273. Patented Mar. 25, 1919.

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FREDERICK HOWARD AULD, 0F COLUMBUS, OHIO.

WORKMAN S IDENTIFICATION-BADGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 25, 1919.

Application filed April 15, 1918. Serial No. 228,773.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK HOWARD AULD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Workmens Identification-Badges, of which the following is a specification.

The exigencies of the present war have made it imperative that some means be provided to prevent spying and espionage in factories and warehouses or departments thereof especially where supplies for the army are being manufactured and stored, and the object of the present invention is to provide an identifying badge for workmen and others in such warehouses and factories of such construction that it cannot readily be altered for the purpose of deceiving those who guard the entrances to such warehouses and factories.

The invention is embodied in the construction herein shown and described and then finally claimed.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is a front view of one example of badge.

Fig. 2 is a section on a larger scale of the vignette receiving portion showing how the prepared parts are assembled for the clenching operation.

Fig. 3 is a similar section showing the parts clenched.

In the views 5 designates the body of the badge which may be of any suitable outline or design and is made of rather hard stifl metal. Said body portion is shown as provided with a circular hole. Fitting snugly in said hole is a ring 6 of T-form in the crosssection of its bar. The outer rim of the head of the T-portion of the said ring (3 rests against the outer face of the body of the badge. Inserted in the ring from the rear side of the body of the badge is first a disk 7 of transparent material preferably noncombustible, second the vignette 8 of the person who is to wear the badge and lastly a cup shaped member 9 of steel. The circumferential wall of the cup shaped member 9 fits closely against the web of the ring 6 but is deeper than said web. The parts thus assembled as shown in Fig. 2 are then placed on an anvil or bed and pressure applied with a tool or die having a face with a cross section like that shown 1n broken lines Fig. 2 so as to press or roll the projecting edges of the cup shaped member and ring outward and down toward the body of the badge and as a result curl the edge of the cup shaped member under the edge of the ring substantially as shown in Fig. 3. When this operation is completed the vignette is locked in place and its removal or alteration made difficult without perceptible disfiguration of the badge.

The forms of the parts can be changed without departing from the gist of the invention as claimed.

What I claim is:

1. A workmans identification badge consisting of the combination of a body portion provided with an opening, a ring having a web and a headed portion to support a vignette inserted at one side of said opening, and a cup shaped member inserted in said ring at the opposite side of said body portion the circumferential wall of said cup shaped member and the web of said ring being bent over together toward said body portion to secure said parts together.

2. A workmans identification badge consisting of the combination of a body portion proi'ided with an opening, a ring having a web and a headed portion to support a vignette inserted at one side of said opening and a cup shaped member inserted in said ring at the opposite side of said body portion the depth of the wall of said cup shaped member being greater than that of the web of the ring, the circumferential wall of said cup shaped member and the web of said ring being rolled over together with the edge of the wall turned under the edge of the web of the ring.

FREDERICK HOWARD AULD.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0." 

